Season of Migration to the South

There are many reasons possible why he needed an intellectual departure from the concerns of the North, a mentality embodied for him by Western Europe and the United States of America. In spite of continued evidence that the African experience of Europe and things European has contributed in its way to alter Europe and things European, neither the European nor the American intellectual has yet displayed the humility to accept the implications of this alteration. As a result, the African intellectual is forever forced to restate this position while the European and American intellectual continues to assert the same old prejudices.